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<blockquote data-quote="Fallen Seraph" data-source="post: 4579353" data-attributes="member: 57894">For myself as a DM I do a scatter-plot for mystery games. I set up lots of initial clues/methods of investigation and then numerous paths that can be taken from there, and those branch off into other ones, etc. So it becomes more and more spread out, after a peak moment in the mystery-plot it begins to shrink down again as it leads to the end of the mystery and the truth.I will also add in the cases where the certain path leads to a dead-end. Not a complete dead-end but simply a different investigation that branches off from that one. You always see in crime shows/mystery shows sometimes 2-3 other corresponding investigations that branch off thanks to the initial one.Now, mystery is one of my favourite kinds of games to play so I invest lots in running it well. I usually have some sort of force pushing the PCs/plotline to keep going so they don't stall out, there is always a need to go, go, go, go. So even a investigative and diplomacy ridden plotline has tension and excitement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fallen Seraph, post: 4579353, member: 57894"] For myself as a DM I do a scatter-plot for mystery games. I set up lots of initial clues/methods of investigation and then numerous paths that can be taken from there, and those branch off into other ones, etc. So it becomes more and more spread out, after a peak moment in the mystery-plot it begins to shrink down again as it leads to the end of the mystery and the truth. I will also add in the cases where the certain path leads to a dead-end. Not a complete dead-end but simply a different investigation that branches off from that one. You always see in crime shows/mystery shows sometimes 2-3 other corresponding investigations that branch off thanks to the initial one. Now, mystery is one of my favourite kinds of games to play so I invest lots in running it well. I usually have some sort of force pushing the PCs/plotline to keep going so they don't stall out, there is always a need to go, go, go, go. So even a investigative and diplomacy ridden plotline has tension and excitement. [/QUOTE]

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